first edition
1894 · Hammersmith
by MORRIS, William
Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894. KELMSCOTT PRESS; CRANE, Walter. With Twenty-Three Wood-Engraved Illustrations Designed by Walter Crane
KELMSCOTT PRESS. CRANE, Walter, [illustrator]. MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain. which has been also called The Land of Living Men or The Acre of the Undying. Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894.
Full Description:
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called The Land of Living Men or The Acre of the Undying. [Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894].
One of 250 paper copies. Large quarto. 177 pp. Printed in red and black in Troy type, with table of contents in Chaucer type. With twenty-three wood-engraved illustrations designed by Walter Crane. Decorative woodcut borders and initials.
Full limp vellum with four original green silk ties, two of which are laid in. Spine lettered in gilt. Yapp edges. Some light soiling to edges. Otherwise a fine copy. A lovely copy of a wonderful book.
The only title printed twice by the Kelmscott Press. Morris was so eager to get the first edition (published in 1891) into print that he would not wait for Crane’s illustrations (Peterson).
Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 31-32. Peterson A22. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 327, no. 22. Sparling 22. Tomkinson, p. 113, no. 22.
HBS 69291.
$12,500. (Inventory #: 69291)
KELMSCOTT PRESS. CRANE, Walter, [illustrator]. MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain. which has been also called The Land of Living Men or The Acre of the Undying. Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894.
Full Description:
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called The Land of Living Men or The Acre of the Undying. [Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894].
One of 250 paper copies. Large quarto. 177 pp. Printed in red and black in Troy type, with table of contents in Chaucer type. With twenty-three wood-engraved illustrations designed by Walter Crane. Decorative woodcut borders and initials.
Full limp vellum with four original green silk ties, two of which are laid in. Spine lettered in gilt. Yapp edges. Some light soiling to edges. Otherwise a fine copy. A lovely copy of a wonderful book.
The only title printed twice by the Kelmscott Press. Morris was so eager to get the first edition (published in 1891) into print that he would not wait for Crane’s illustrations (Peterson).
Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 31-32. Peterson A22. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 327, no. 22. Sparling 22. Tomkinson, p. 113, no. 22.
HBS 69291.
$12,500. (Inventory #: 69291)
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